Digital Rights Management (DRM)

The recording industry has seized the opportunity to distribute their content, mostly audio files through wireless phones carriers and Internet. Nearly all the content provided by wireless phone carriers and online music distribution services comes with embedded anti-piracy software or digital rights management (DRM) and with that you end up buying music specific to a particular device or carrier. This is just not right, once you have paid for a particular audio file or content you should be able to play it on any of the players, home network or devices. Wireless phone carriers like Verizon, Cingular Wireless, have all adopted for proprietary DRM solutions for there full track download services and again this is not good for the consumer.
DRM has to go or change to a standard form of implementation, whereby it is consumer friendly. We are already seeing some action from artists like Jessica Simpson, Norah Jones etc., by release of DRM-free content for online distribution and I hope their experimentation is successful as I do not think that we need DRM, at least not in it's present form.